Coin-wrapping device and means



July 18, 1950 w. G. NEWBY, SR 2,515,312

COIN-WRAPPING DEVICE AND MEANS Filed June 15, 1948- r9 7' TORIVEJ S Patented July 18, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFF-ICE;

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I 1. This invention relates coins, and particularly'to 'means'for wrapping a predetermined. invariable number -ofcoins to form standard coin packages.

The main object of.-my-"invention. is tomake it readily possible towrap v awcertain, number of.

coinsv without the necessity; of counting thecoinsto be wrapped.

Another. object is to provide means for facilitating wrapping predeterminedgroups ofcoins conveniently andspeedily in order to, save time and be in a position .to handlelarge quantities of. coins.

to. means for wrapping I that counting machines are used; but in many A further object is to have-means of the indicated character made at..low..cost and. of simple form to facilitate manufacture, distribution and use thereof.

It is also an objectto provide-,means forthe indicated purpose which includes, not only meansfor gauging and. supporting the coins to be wrapped, but also a special cooperating means forwrapping each number of. coins thus gauged and supported.

Other objects and advantages. of my invention will appearin further detail as the'specification proceeds,

In order to. facilitate ready comprehension of the invention and its salient features, this invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, andjn which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of. a coin-wrapping device made according to theinvention and embodying the salient features thereof in a practical form, a coin-wrapper blank being shown in broken lines in position upon the device;

Figure -2'isa longitudinal section of the device of Figure 1, as taken on line 22;

Figure 3 is a transverse section of the same device taken on line 3-4 in Figure 1;

Figure 4 is aperspective view of. acoin wrapper fitting the device of Figure 1 and shown-in the latter figure in broken, lines-as already indi'-. cated;

Figure 5 is a fragmentary section taken on line 55 in Figure 1.

In the various views the same reference numerals indicate the same or like parts throughout.

In various establishments where large numbers of coins are handled, it is self-evident that to manually count such coins and pack them into standard packages for depositing in a bank is a tedious chore which is burdensome and wasteful of time if some expedients are not adopted to speed up the work of handling the coins. In larger establishments, it is, of course, well known ;age.

instances the cost ofthe latter is not justified so that many clerks'are occupied in manually counting the coins as though there were no devices whatever for facilitating such duties, and I this is especially true in smaller establishments.

After considering this problem carefully, I have found it possible to design simplemeans for facilitating and speeding up the counting of coins and wrapping the same in standard packages, as will now be set forth in detail.

In the practice of my invention, and referring again to the accompanying drawing, a coinwrapping device, generally indicated at 15, pri-' marily includes a gauging board 1 having substantially parallel side edges 8, 9, with the far end 10 substantially square with sides 8 and 9,

while the near end i i is cut obliquely for a purpose which will'shortly be explained; A short distance from the far end minating sharply at both sides in the end walls 13 and M, the curvature of the groove being such that it will fit the edgeof a coin standing upright in said groove with the sides of the coin parallelto the sides 8 and 9 of the board. The lengthof this groove is accurately cut to receive an exact number of coins intended 'to 'form a standard package, say for example, fifty or. a hundred pennies, twenty nickels or ten or twenty dimes, twenty quarters, and so forth. In otherwords, if the groove is filled from wall I3 to wall M with the proper type of coin for which the groove is designed, a given number of coins will be accommodated' and no more, with the assurance that the count is accurate and the coinpackage afterwardswrapped-will contain a standard number ofcoins, and therefore be a standard coin "package for the type of coin wrapped.

It'is evident that if a wrapper or paper or the like |5 is laid upon: the-board and substantially conforms to the outline thereof, it will be a properform to enclose the-coins and constitute the exact size and shape ofwrapperrequired for the pack-- In order to' facilitate placing 'the' wrapper in proper position on the board, a, pair of side edge guides 16, H are secured to the edges 8 and 9 of gauging board i by means of screws or nails l8, the upper ends of the guides i6 and I! being bent inwardly toward each other in the form of a pair of lugs 19 and 20, beneath which the wrapper [5 may be slid into position for the wrapping operation.

On the other hand, in order further to cooperate with the gauging board I in accurately gaug- I B a limited trans-- verse groove I2 is cut in the gauging board I tering and then wrapping the coins, the wrapper l5 has a pair of cut-out side portions 2| and '22 forming a neck portion 23 and 23 of the same width as the length of groove l2 from wall 3 to wall l4, and virtually dividing the wrapper into two sections, namely a short initial wrapper 24 and a longer finishing wrapper 25 terminating in the oblique end 26 forming the closure of the wrapper which may be provided with adhesive, as at 21, if desired.

The arrangement is such that when a wrapper I5 is slipped into position upon the gauging board I between the guides IB and I1, and, of course, beneath the lugs l 9 and thereof and with the neck portion 23, 23 substantially registering with the upper edges of end walls l3 and I4 of groove l2, a group of coins may be packedinto the groove, as indicated at 28. The immediate result is that the neck portion 23 is weighted by the coins and brought down into the groove, as may readily be seen in Figures 2 and 3, when the, initial wrapping portion 24 may be used at first to begin the wrapping of the coins, after which they may be rolled with the side flap 29 and 30 folded in upon the coins at the end thereof and the coins thus initially wrapped rolled up on the longer wrapper portion and the adhesive portion 2'! pasted on the end to finally close the wrapper. Of course, many wrappers are known that use no adhesive, and the latter may therefore be omitted if desired. It is to be noted, however, that due to the formation of the wrapper including the cut-out portions 2! and 22 which leaves the narrow neck 23, 23 exactly registering with the length of the groove l2, the initialstep of wrapping is greatly facilitated by allowing the coins 28 to press down the neck 23 into the groove and thereby automatically start the wrapping. The coin wrapper thus cooperates with the gauging board to produce the final result of turning out quickly wrapped coin packages or rolls. It is to be noted that for each type of The gauging board I may be made of wood. plastic or metal, while the guides l 6 and I! with their upper retaining lugs l9 and 2t] are preferably of metal or the like, and, of course, the wrapper I5 is conventionally of paper or similar material.

Manifestly, variations may be resorted to and features may be modified or used without others within the scope of the appended claim.

Having'nowfully described my invention, I claim:

A coin-wrapping device comprising a substantially rectangular flat plate which is elongated, the plate being provided in its top face and near and inwardly of one end of the plate with a transverse elongated cylindrically curved groove for receiving a stack of coins, the opposite coin to be wrapped, the gauging board 1 is made,

to order for that coin, with the coin slot of precisely the length to receive a stipulated number of this type of coins and no others. For example, the slot is made to receive exactly fifty or one hundred pennies, and, naturally, the wrapper is likewise made of the proper size accordingly. The same principles apply to nickels, dimes and quarters, etc., the board in each case being accurately made to accommodate the coin specified by the one ordering it, and the wrappers being similarly made of the corresponding size;

In fact, each gauging board may be particularly marked and identified to point out the type or denomination of coins for which it is made. This feature may even hold in identifying boards to distinguish a board adapted for receiving forty Jefierson nickels to make up $2.00 from one that serves to receive forty Buffalo nickels, as the groove length which accommodates forty Jefferson nickels is actually long enough to receive. forty-two Buffalo nickels, the latter being slightly thinner than the Jefferson nickel-s.

ends of the groove terminating near and inwa'rdly of the opposite side longitudinal edges of the plate and forming shoulders which are flush with the top ofthe plate, a pair of laterally oppositely disposed substantially shaped guides secured to the opposite sides of the plate near and inwardly of the end of the plate remote from the transverse groove, the tops of the guides projecting laterally inwardly over the top of the plate and being spaced slightly from such top,

and a substantially rectangular wrapper of thin sheet material mounted upon the top of the plate and engaging beneath the L-shaped guides and having its marginal edge arranged substantially flush with the marginal edge of the plate, the 1 wrapper being provided in its longitudinal side edges with a pairof laterally oppositely disposed substantially rectangular notches, the notches being disposed adjacent to the shoulders at the opposite ends of the groove and exposing sub-R stantially the entire top surfaces of the shoulders, the inner ends of the notches being arranged substantially flush and in alignment with the opposite ends of the groove, the notches forming a narrowed neck portion extending across the top of the groove and long and short wrapper portions arranged upon opposite sides of the groove,

whereby a stack of coins can be placed uponthe neck portion which will sag into the groove be:

tween the shoulders so that the short wrapper, portion may be folded over the stack of coins to initially wrap them, the initially wrapped stack of coins then being rolled over the long. wrapper portion to complete the wrapping of the stack.

WILLIAM G. NEWBY, SR.

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